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This is a list of episodes for the British television drama series Primeval.
[edit] Episodes
[edit] Series 1: 2007
The first series primarily revolves around the team originally forming, and Cutter searching for Helen.
| Episode |
Writer |
Director |
Original Airdate |
| "Episode 1" |
Adrian Hodges |
Cilla Ware |
February 10, 2007 |
| A time anomaly appears in the Forest of Dean, leading to the late Permian period, 250 million years ago. A small team of people group together to help defeat a Gorgonopsid that has come through. |
| "Episode 2" |
Adrian Hodges |
Cilla Ware |
February 17, 2007 |
| After a London Underground cleaner is killed by an arthropod-type monster, the team investigate an underground time anomaly that leads to the Late Carboniferous period. They soon face giant spiders, and something deadlier. |
| "Episode 3" |
Adrian Hodges |
Cilla Ware |
February 24, 2007 |
| Swimming pools, inner-city reservoirs, and flooded cellars in suburban homes are being overtaken with marine creatures such as Mosasaurs and Hesperornis. Cutter is forced to brave the icy waters to find his wife Helen. |
| "Episode 4" |
Richard Kurti & Bev Doyle |
Jamie Payne |
March 3, 2007 |
| Helen escapes and unleashes a flock of dodos that carry deadly parasites capable of infecting humans. |
| "Episode 5" |
Chris Lang |
Jamie Payne |
March 10, 2007 |
| A Pteranodon turns up at a golf course, and trouble begins when a golfer is killed. |
| "Episode 6" |
Adrian Hodges |
Jamie Payne |
March 17, 2007 |
| The team fight a rampaging sophisticated predator from the future, when Claudia Brown mysteriously disappears. |
[edit] Series 2: 2008
The timeline change in Series 1 happens in its finale, and Cutter accustoms to the new universe for the majority of Series 2. By now Cutter no longer seems to care about Helen.
| Episode |
Writer |
Director |
Original Airdate |
| "Episode 7" |
Adrian Hodges |
Jamie Payne |
12 January 2008 |
| Cutter grapples with Claudia Brown's disappearance whilst struggling to adjust to working with her replacement, Oliver Leek. Meanwhile, the team try to recapture a pack of Deinonychus on the loose in the local shopping centre. |
| "Episode 8" |
Adrian Hodges |
Andrew Gunn |
19 January 2008 |
| Giant carnivorous worms start to appear in an eerie fog in a local office block. |
| "Episode 9" |
Richard Kurti and Bev Doyle |
Jamie Payne |
26 January 2008 |
| A Sabre-toothed cat rampages across Blue Sky Park, killing at will, but the team believe someone is covering up for the creature. |
| "Episode 10" |
Cameron McAllistor |
Jamie Payne |
2 February 2008 |
| When the team is sent to investigate the disappearance of a teenager, Abby is dragged through an anomaly by another future carnivorous species named the Mer. |
| "Episode 11" |
Ben Court and Caroline Ip |
Andrew Gunn |
9 February 2008 |
| While trying to rescue a child stranded through an anomaly, the team are trapped in the past, and to make matters worse, they are faced with giant scorpions. |
| "Episode 12" |
Paul Cornell |
Nick Murphy |
16 February 2008 |
| A Columbian mammoth goes on the rampage on the M25 motorway, while Lester fights for his life against a future predator that has infiltrated the ARC. |
| "Episode 13" |
Adrian Hodges |
Nick Murphy |
23 February 2008 |
| Cutter and the team are trapped by Leek, who plans to use his army of creatures to make him the most powerful man in a new and troubled world. |
[edit] Series 3: 2009
A third series has now been given the green light, and is planned for a January 2009 airdate[1], with 10 episodes[2].
[edit] References
- ^ ITV commissions third series of Primeval | Media | guardian.co.uk
- ^ Primeval Series ITV: Interview with Tim Haines and Adrian Hodges
